- Nov 07, 2020
People Quotes
Quotes about people, privacy, and human nature.
This page collects quotes touching on people in different senses - novelists describing how characters take on independent vitality, and technologists warning how easily people's movements and data can be tracked. It's a broader mix than a single theme, much like Like Quotes.
- Last Updated on Jul 30, 2026
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- Nov 07, 2020
Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas.
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- Nov 07, 2020
At the heart of anti-Semitism lies Moses. He made a catastrophic error, a terrible mistake, and all anti-Semitism for two thousand years stems from his misjudgement. Moses said we Jews could remain a people without having a land. He said we don't need territory to hold onto our Jewish identity. This was a disaster.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
We must see what in the Israeli identity - in the Israeli - we can give to other people rather than speaking so often of taking, expanding territory.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The question of boundaries is a major question of the Jewish people because the Jews are the great experts of crossing boundaries. They have a sense of identity inside themselves that doesn't permit them to cross boundaries with other people.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Only people who live outside cities realize the size of them. London turns out to be huge; there are great swaths, vast panoramas, a whole diaspora I'd never imagined. The place I live in tends to be manageably small, a few familiar journeys and destinations.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Other people's traditions look charming and decorative and exotic. They're nice places to visit on holiday, but you wouldn't want to live with one.
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- Nov 07, 2020
London is a city of ghosts; you feel them here. Not just of people, but eras. The ghost of empire, or the blitz, the plague, the smoky ghost of the Great Fire that gave us Christopher Wren's churches and ushered in the Georgian city.
- Problem
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- Nov 07, 2020
You see, the problem with Dave Cameron is that people know who he is. The less people know about him, the more he's likely to get re-elected.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
The part that makes you unique is the bit people will like or fear, fall in love with, or try to avoid.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
People collect boredom, they hoard it, they wallow in it, hoping that one day it'll be of interest and become an effete ennui. Let me tell you, it doesn't.
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- Nov 07, 2020
People who know there is a god and people who know there isn't live in exactly the same world. Same number of hours in the day, same weather, same football results. They both love their children and die of the same diseases.
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- Nov 07, 2020
People who don't believe in God are no happier than people who do, and those who do believe are no nicer than those who don't.
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- Nov 07, 2020